Orthotomus maculicoUis, Sume, Stray Feath. viii. j). 64 (1879). 

 Sutoria maculicoUis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 218 (1883) ; id. 

 Sand-1. iv. p. 191 (1903). 



The eggs of the Malayan Tailor-bird in the CoUection are in- 

 separable from many of those of the Indian Tailor-bird, They are 

 pale blue, spotted and blotched, principally at the larger end, with 

 reddish brown and pinkish brown. They measure respectively : '65 

 by -45 ; -63 by -45. 



Kossoom, Malay Peninsula, 23rd 

 July (JF. Davison). 



Hume CoU. 



Genus ORTHOTOMUS, Horsf. 



Orthotomus atrigularis (Temm.). 



(Plate IX. fig. 11.) 



Orthotomus atrigularis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, pp. 16, 113; id. Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 259 ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 235 (1889) ; 

 Sharpe, Sand-l. iv. p. 192 (1903). 



The four eggs of the Black-throated Tailor-bird in the CoUection 

 are rather wide-pointed ovals, with the ground-colour white and 

 somewhat glossy ; the entire surface of the sheU is sparingly blotched 

 and spotted with light red and lavender-grey, the markings being 

 most numerous at the larger end, where they sometimes form an 

 irregular zone. They measure from -55 to "58 in length, and from 

 •42 to -44 in breadth. 



4. Margherita, Assam, 29th April. 



E. C. Stuart Buker, Esq. [P.]. 



